Stuart Suss
PhD Student
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Loc: Chester County, Pennsylva...
Reg: 11-21-04
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05-08-20 04:00 PM - Post#307104
In response to 91Quake
The questions came from those who are less informed about Ivy League basketball than are the readers of this board. Not much news was made.
Why did we play Princeton twice at the start of the season? (Because of Princeton’s exam schedule.)
Do other schools in the league play their travel partners twice at the start of the season? (Yes, they do.)
Will this change? (Yes, the entire Ivy basketball schedule structure has changed now that Princeton has changed their exam schedule.)
Why is the Ivy tournament site rotating among all the schools in the league? (That is what the Ivy presidents voted to do. The tournament is going back to Harvard next year.)
Why don’t we have a better home schedule? (Many conferences now have 20-game, in-conference schedules, and “since we got good, teams don’t answer the phone.â€)
We played our best basketball after Ryan Betley returned from his injury. “I felt good about our chances going up to Harvard [for the tournament].â€
The injured players are “rehabilitating well.â€
For those in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, we have a game scheduled at TCU this season. It will be a “guarantee†game and TCU will not make a return visit to the Palestra.
Of course, all schedule comments are contingent upon there being a basketball season in 2020-21. Given that everyone understands the uncertainty of the medical situation, nobody bothered to ask Steve Donahue to speculate on the status of Ivy sports for the upcoming academic year.
There were multiple sessions like this. Perhaps more news was made during one of those discussions.
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